Here's everything to know about NASA's 1970 space mission Apollo 13, including its purpose, what went wrong, if the crew survived and more.

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched with astronauts Jack Swigert, 38, Jim Lovell, 42, and Fred Haise, 36. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, however ...

The first Apollo 1 mission, which took place on January 27, 1967, and was originally named Apollo-Saturn 204 (AS-204), sadly ended in a tragedy when the three astronauts on board — Virgil ...

The team aboard Apollo 11 remained in constant contact with Mission control and the command module. Just minutes before landing, at 9.10pm, a ‘1202 programme alarm’ was triggered four times.

Apollo 10 got within nine miles of the moon's surface. The crew took pictures and gathered information about the landing sites for Apollo 11. This mission began on May 18, 1969 and ended on May 26.

Since the first days of the space program, astronauts wear a special patch specific to each mission. A small North Carolina company has designed them all since the Apollo lunar launches.

The claim: Post implies Apollo 11 mission was faked because images appeared in newspapers before crew returned to Earth. A Jan. 25 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of the ...

Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.

Once the Apollo 11 crew reached the Moon's gravity, the speed increased to 5,600 mph. While the Saturn V's top speed is indeed incredible, the Apollo 10 actually set the bar just months before, in ...

It was the opening scene of "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man." It was also included in director Mark Craig's "Last Man on the Moon," inspiring "Apollo 1." ...

Surely you’ve heard that your smartphone has more computing power than the computers that sent the Apollo mission to the Moon. Well, a full 55 years after the spaceflight that landed Neil ...